“there was a report yesterday that such “false reports” can be redressed, protested, or even lifted over time. “
Do you have the hundreds of thousands of dollars it will take to hire enough lawyers to do this?
Cuz most people don’t.
Ask Richard Jewell how that works...
And will do NOTHING to fix the problems discussed in that GAB post about what happens in real life with these types of laws.
The USA did away with committing the mentally ill to institutional confinement back in the dark days of “Snake Pit” asylums. This now has the mentally ill and the impoverished all on the streets together, today, with no help at all to ever be in therapies, we’re told.
The average Joe would need a *history* of threatening remarks and actions, indicating a desire or intent for harming others are going to fall under scrutiny. Terrifying people is not comforting. Terrifying them while owning a gun is less so.
The average Joe who finds himself unjustifiably threatened by Aunt Gladys (on the grounds of mental illness) who alleges he therefore should be prohibited from gun ownership, in most counties, will never run up a legal bill any more costly than defending ourselves against most any other local controversy, as in maybe using the Lemon Law to redress a bad car deal.
I get the slippery slope, but these cases of mass death and destruction, as the POTUS points out, are related to Insanity, and the astonishing Record for Ignoring these shooter histories of insanity are going to get a hearing. The evidence of some proclivity for the demonic is particularly going to trump the Nuts Get Guns defense, I believe.